West Bengal has moved into the front-runner group in the SDG India Index, with an official composite score of 70 in 2023-24, up by 8 points from 2020-21. That is meaningful progress, but it does not yet reflect the kind of ward-level service transformation needed in the state’s largest urban system. Kolkata remains the logical starting point because the Kolkata Municipal Corporation governs 144 wards, the city’s official 2011 population baseline is about 4.50 million, and KMC itself reports...

Weekly Top 10 News For Earth, Environment and Planetary Science 25 April and 2 May 2026 East Africa’s Turkana Rift may be nearer to continental breakup A major tectonic finding from the Turkana Rift in Kenya and Ethiopia showed that East Africa’s continental crust is thinning more sharply than previously understood. Researchers reported that the rift stretches about 500 km and that the African and Somali plates are moving apart at nearly 4.7 mm per year. Most strikingly, the crust along the...

Chatujye-moshai said, “If you speak of tigers, then speak of the tiger of Rudraprayag. A truly weeping, sentimental fellow! In summer he goes there from the Sundarbans for a change of air. But such is the sanctity of the place that he does not touch ordinary people; after all, they are pilgrims. He eats only sahibs, by the roadside.” Binod, the pleader, said, “A patriotic tiger, then. Could we not import a few of that species here? Swaraj would arrive in no time. No need of swadeshi, bombs,...